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where they seem stationary ; but, contrary to 

 the Baron's account, I have never seen more 

 than one, or at the most two, on the same tree. 

 They generally appear to choose trees about 

 a hundred yards apart, and there the great 

 red bearded monkey sits making, what seemed 

 to me a booming noise, but very horrible and 

 without much variation. The cry is responded 

 to by others, and taken up again by those 

 more distant, and the forest resounds and 

 echoes with the most unearthly sounds. The 

 first time I passed through a forest peopled, 

 or tenanted, by this monkey, a young horse 

 that I was riding got so frightened that he 

 was trying to dash into the underwood in 

 every direction, and it was only the enormous 

 spurs and sharp bit of Chili that could persuade 

 him to keep the path. 



Some persons call this monkey " Mono 

 Colorado," or red monkey, and others by a 

 name I forget ; but I asked a woodsman one 

 day what the Indians called it, and he said 

 " Jibbon." Now, can that name be the same 

 as Gibbon, which, I believe, is that of a 

 monkey in the old world ? 



All the other species of monkey have no 

 fixed residence; they wander from tree to 

 tree ; from river to river ; from forest to 



